One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works -… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I've loved physics from a young age, but I've also been interested in all sorts of big questions, from philosophy to evolution… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle:… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe. — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Someday, when the ultimate laws of physics are in our grasp, we may discover that the notion of time isn't actually essential.… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The fact that the underlying laws of physics are deterministic and impersonal does not mean that at the human level we can't… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Whenever you say you're a physicist, there's a certain fraction of people who immediately go, 'Oh, I hated physics in high school.'… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as outside the universe, as far as we can tell. — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The weird thing about the arrow of time is that it's not to be found in the underlying laws of physics. It's… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself. — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I've loved physics from a young age, but I've also been interested in all sorts of big questions, from philosophy to evolution and neuroscience.… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The simplest way out of the puzzle of time travel is to say that it can't be done. That's very likely the right answer.… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Our conviction that green cheese makes up a negligible fraction of the Moon's interior comes not from direct observation but from the gross incompatibility… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
As we get older, we tend to grow quite fond of the planets of belief we have constructed for ourselves. We build elaborate defense… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened! — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
People don't realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs,… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Something can be real - actually existing, not merely illusory - and yet not be fundamental. Scientists used to think that heat, for example,… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
